Language at the speed of sight: How we read, why so many can’t, and what can be done about it

In Language at the Speed of Sight, [Seidenberg] develops a careful argument, backed by decades of research, to show that the only responsible way to teach children to read well is to build up their abilities to connect reading with speech and then to amplify these connections through practice, developing skillful behavioral patterns hand in hand with the neurological networks that undergird them…Every teacher of young children as well as those who train them should read this book.